We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Alex Young, 51, from Tranmere had been in remission following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2014. However, when the mum-of-one eventually secured […]

Ningún estudioso de la poliomielitis sabía más que Albert Sabin, el científico de la Universidad de Cincinnati polaco-estadounidense cuya vacuna contra la paralizante enfermedad se ha estado utilizando en todo el mundo desde 1959. La vacuna oral de Sabin proporciona inmunidad de por vida. Tiene un inconveniente, que Sabin, quien murió en 1993, se negó ferozmente a reconocer: en casos […]

A novel liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, appears to be effective for diagnosing two major liver conditions, according to a new study published in Gut. The test could allow clinicians to determine the staging of both liver fibrosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, wrote the researchers led by Giulia Angelini, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow focused on nonalcoholic fatty liver […]

Goliath: Billy Bob Thornton stars in trailer for final season We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info When asked what the best piece of advice he has […]

What would our lives be like if we could no longer depend on our most cherished friendships? The people who know us best, who have been there through our ups and downs, and share a history with us? For many people living with dementia, this is a reality. Over 500,000 Canadians are currently living with dementia, and a diagnosis often […]

A recent editorial published in The Lancet Microbe underscored the ‘One Health’ policy for surveilling emergent infectious diseases. Study: Avian influenza: the need to apply experience. Image Credit: AnaLysiSStudiO/Shutterstock Background Eighty-one cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A subtype H5N6 in humans have been detected to date since the first human case in 2014. Most (68%) of these cases […]

In a recent study published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, researchers assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of healthcare workers (HCWs) towards monkeypox (MPX) in Italy. Study: When a Neglected Tropical Disease Goes Global: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Italian Physicians towards Monkeypox, Preliminary Results. Image Credit: Guschenkova/Shutterstock Background MPX is considered a neglected tropical illness caused by […]

Researchers have discovered a significant and previously unknown mechanism that many bacteria use to resist antibiotics. Using a combination of computation and physical observation in the laboratory, the researchers have unraveled a sophisticated process that some commonly occurring bacteria use to save themselves from the rifamycin class of antibiotics, which occur naturally and are also manufactured to treat infectious diseases. […]

In a major new development in the quest to develop better gene therapies with which to treat a host of diseases, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Chan Medical School recently announced that they have mapped the expression and maturation of the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) with unprecedented clarity. The results, which detail the molecular folding of […]

The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be controlled and eliminated, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so-far limited vaccine supplies. The Biden administration’s top health official pushed back against criticism about the pace of the response and worries that the U.S. has missed the window to contain the virus, which has been declared a global emergency. […]